Opening Keynote

Kick off Summit with an epic opening session from Atlassian's Co-founder and Co-CEO Scott Farquhar and special guest Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without Losing your Humanity. Discover how you can unleash the power of your team's potential.

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Product Keynote

Be the first to learn about Atlassian's latest and greatest advancements for the tools you can't live without with Co-founder and Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes, and get a glimpse of where Atlassian is headed for the future.

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"Ask Atlassian" Keynote

Got questions about Atlassian, our tools, or the future of teamwork? Come and join this session as Atlassian founders take the stage to answer all your burning questions.

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Diversity in Tech

Build connections with professionals committed to the success of diversity in the industry. Discuss issues with our diverse panel, join in on speed networking, and inspire change.

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ShipIt Live

We're bringing Atlassian's quarterly, 24-hour period of innovation to San Jose! Help crown the hackathon project winner and join us for a toast to the end of Summit 2017.

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Become a Confluence Whiz Kid: Organized Spaces and Beautiful Pages

John Wetenhall

Strategy & Operations, Confluence, Atlassian

John Wetenhall

Strategy & Operations, Confluence, Atlassian

John began his career working on a fledgling start up in San Francisco straight out of university. Two startups later he landed at Atlassian where he started out in product marketing for Confluence and helped launch Confluence Questions. He's since moved on to Strategy & Operations for Confluence where he works on Confluence product and business strategy. John brings passion for the customer to every debate and is passionate about getting more done with Agile (yes, even in marketing). When not at the office, John is an avid surfer, runner and music fan. Get in touch on Twitter - @jwetenhall

Many great achievements started with a page in Confluence. Still, users always ask us how to get started creating and organizing content. How you choose to organize content in Spaces and what your pages look like determines how effective your content is.

John Wetenhall, Confluence Whiz, is sharing top tips for Space organization and page creation from his 4 years working on Confluence and speaking to scores of users. He'll focus on Confluence's top use cases: project collaboration and knowledge bases, with hands on examples from Atlassian's own internal Confluence instances, so you know what great spaces and pages can look like, and how to actually create them.

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From Feedback to Features - Building the New Jira Experience

Helen Xue

Product Management Associate, Atlassian

Helen Xue

Product Management Associate, Atlassian

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Dave Meyer

Senior Product Manager, Atlassian

Dave Meyer

Senior Product Manager, Atlassian

Dave is a Senior Product Manager at Atlassian working on Jira Cloud. He leads teams working on Jira's core features like project administration and Jira's APIs and developer ecosystem. Prior to Jira, Dave helped launch and grow the Atlassian Marketplace. You can usually find him on a plane somewhere between Sydney and Europe.

When you have 65,000 customers with different needs, who do you listen to? Creating a feedback culture to hear your users is only the first step – translating that feedback into a concrete roadmap is hard, and shipping something is even harder. Join JIRA product managers Helen Xue and Dave Meyer as we share the story of our quest to simplify JIRA. From quick wins to tough trade-offs, you'll learn the strategies and metrics our team used to turn feedback into action. You'll leave with insider knowledge about how we prioritize on JIRA, what we've learned trying to simplify a massive product, and how your team can avoid our mistakes.

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How Talking Becomes Doing With Stride

Cameron Savage

Senior Product Manager, Atlassian

Cameron Savage

Senior Product Manager, Atlassian

Cameron is an Atlassian Product Manager with a passion for learning and building. He has always been fascinated by architecture, physics, studio art, robotics, gadgets, and majored in creative writing – and found a place to feed those interests in Product Development. Currently, Cameron and his teams are focused on bringing the very best messaging and communication solutions to Atlassian customers. Before joining Atlassian in 2015, he helped establish, and grow, the Mobile program at RetailMeNot into a strategic pillar for the company.

Stride offers an evolution on chat tools that helps you and your team move work forward, together. Come learn how with Stride Senior Product Manager, Cameron Savage, as he discusses the ways the Stride team communication tool empowers you and your team to talk, meet, decide, and do.

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Upgrades and Admin at Scale: How to Become a Jira Admin Champion

Rachel Wright

Author, JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook, Industry Templates, LLC

Rachel Wright

Author, JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook, Industry Templates, LLC

Rachel Wright is an entrepreneur, process engineer, and Atlassian Certified JIRA Administrator. She started using JIRA in 2011, became a JIRA administrator in 2013, and was certified in 2016. She is the owner and founder of Industry Templates, LLC, which helps companies grow, get organized, and develop their processes. Rachel also uses Atlassian tools in her personal life for accomplishing goals and tracking tasks. Her first book, the "JIRA Strategy Admin Workbook", was written in Confluence and progress was tracked in JIRA!

Josephine Lee

Product Manager, Atlassian

Josephine Lee

Product Manager, Atlassian

Josephine is a Product Manager at Atlassian. She previously worked on the Server Installs & Upgrades team, and is currently working on the Atlassian Home team.

Want to become a wiz at workflows, a master of maintenance, and unafraid of upgrades? Hear real use cases and examples from Rachel Wright, author of the Jira Strategy Admin Workbook, and learn how to avoid common Jira Admin mistakes to keep your application clean and uncluttered. Walk through top tips for the smoothest Jira upgrades with Atlassian Product Manager Josephine Lee, and make sure you can take advantage of the newest features, fixes, and performance improvements of each release. Together, they'll help make your admin life easier and instance healthier so you can become a Jira Admin Champion.

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Winning at Project Management with the Team Playbook

Alastair Simpson

Head of Design, Platform, Mobile & Comms, Atlassian

Alastair Simpson

Head of Design, Platform, Mobile & Comms, Atlassian

Alastair is currently Head of Design, Platform, Mobile and Comms at Atlassian. He is an advocate of using design thinking methodologies to solve complex business problems. Previously, Alastair worked at global publishers Reed Business Information as well as a digital consultancy firm consulting to Qantas, FOXTEL and Telstra. He also owns a rather large tee-shirt collection. You can find Alastair on Twitter at @alanstairs.

Sarah Goff-Dupont

Principal Writer, Atlassian

Sarah Goff-Dupont

Principal Writer, Atlassian

Managing a project is about more than just tracking the work. Your project teams have diverse skill sets, report to different managers, and may even have different visions of what to deliver. How's a project manager supposed to wrangle their team and deliver the goods without losing their mind?

That's where the Team Playbook comes in. From making sure you're building the right thing, to building team harmony, there are loads of project management plays. Join Sarah Goff-Dupont, Atlassian Principal Writer and Alastair Simpson, Head of Atlassian Design, Platform, Mobile & Comms, as they dive into what exactly these plays are and how they've helped various Atlassian teams master their project management. Whether you're a career project manager, or a project just "landed on your plate", you'll walk away with a game plan for keeping morale and quality high, and bottlenecks to a minimum.

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Making Software for the Software Makers: How Atlassian Teams use Jira Software

Jake Brereton

Senior Manager, Jira Software Product Marketing, Atlassian

Jake Brereton

Senior Manager, Jira Software Product Marketing, Atlassian

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Jason Wong

Principal Product Manager, Atlassian

Jason Wong

Principal Product Manager, Atlassian

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Ever wondered how internal Atlassian teams push Jira Software to the limit? At Atlassian each team defines a process that best meets their unique needs and challenges. In this talk Product and Marketing Management duo Jason Wong and Jake Brereton will share insights into how Atlassian teams harness and stress test Jira Software to get their teams humming. You'll leave this session with a behind-the-scenes look at how our teams:

Build custom views that put the right information in front of every team, role, and specialization

Use apps for Atlassian tools to ensure all team members are fully connected to a common workflow

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Sprinting to Success: The Agile Transformation at Lifesize

Holly Tompkins

Enterprise Advocate, Atlassian

Holly Tompkins

Enterprise Advocate, Atlassian

Life long Texan with a few year stint in North Carolina and New York City. Computer Engineering degree from University of Texas at Austin. I spent 12 Years at IBM before joining Atlassian. I work with clients deploying Atlassian tools at scale.

Amy Williams

Director of Engineering Delivery, Lifesize

Amy Williams

Director of Engineering Delivery, Lifesize

I am a maximizer at heart and love to work with individuals and teams. Change is hard and like anything you have to pick your battles. I first learned of the agile scrum methodology while working in the Intelligence Agency for the federal government in 2005. I have been practicing and working with teams over the last decade to utilize principles and adjust where it makes sense. Every company and team has a different culture, but our problems are similar in nature! The more visible our problems are to others, the more opportunity there is for a change to occur and for leaders to take action. For fun I enjoy spending time with my family and two small children.

If you're rolling out Agile to new teams or looking to mature and scale your Agile adoption, this session is for you! Lifesize Agile Engineering Delivery Manager, Amy Williams and Atlassian Enterprise Advocate, Holly Tompkins will share the multi-year journey of starting and scaling the Agile transformation of the hardware and software engineering teams at Lifesize, a maker of video, audio and web conferencing solutions. They will share their transformative process: starting with moving teams one by one to the agile model, then scaling by utilizing quarterly program increment planning and demos. These practices helped Lifesize deliver better products, break down organizational silos, develop trust and transparency across the company, and help teams reach their full potential. They’ll discuss how these practices – alongside tools like the Atlassian Team Playbook and Health Monitor – can help your team start and scale the agile framework, too.

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Keeping the Release Pipeline Flowing

Bryan Jacobs

Development Principal, Atlassian

Bryan Jacobs

Development Principal, Atlassian

In the modern world of continuous deployments, it's more important than ever to make sure your software gets to customers as quickly as possible. In this session you will learn how Atlassian tools (such as Bitbucket Server) can help you keep your code changes moving smoothly into releases, while still complying with best practices like three-party code review. You'll also see:

How to find regulator-happy ways to implement "dark features"

Ways to set up automated tests that reduce the amount of time you spend isolating the causes of failures

A trick using Bamboo in an innovative way to identify which of your existing tests are doing more harm than good

How to deal with traditionally-trying situations like the infamous "change freeze"

As an added bonus, learn a few cool ideas using Jira Service Desk to make it harder for external changes to block your pipeline. Keep it clean, lean, and green!

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